Safety 》Liam Dunbar

12; Nina

This chapter Caroline is a confused teenager.

       "Nina, I'm so confused. I haven't slept well and I can't feel my hands." I told Nina, twiddling with my thumbs absentmindedly. After kissing Liam, we both called it night awkwardly and I walked home alone. I invited Nina to come over in this morning and she didn't disappoint me. I confided everything to her, from the attack to the hospital, to Stiles finally spending some time with me, to Liam.

       "I just don't know how to feel," I whined to Nina, sitting down on my couch and holding my knees against my chest. "It's like since I've met him, everything has gone down in a spiral."

       "How so?" Nina hummed, fiddling with the frills of the pillow I sewed back in seventh grade. Nina has been my friend since that same year, seventh grade, when she moved in the middle of the semester. No one really tried to confront her because she's intimidating, with her sharp comebacks and straight posture, and she's blind.

       Nina told me that she had looked down at a firework she was lighting when she was five and that's how she became blinded. Now she wears shaded sunglasses to hide her damaged eyes. I've never seen them myself, but I don't want to be rude to my other best friend. Other than her blindness, Nina has brown curls that framed her oval face, and she has a resting bitch face that others find scary.

       I sighed, resting my chin on my jagged knee. "I don't know how to explain it, Nina. I only had to worry about my social status and homework before he barged into my life. Now that I'm suddenly caring for him and having feelings, I just feel so out of place. Like without him I have no purpose."

       Nina frowned, I could see from how her thin eyebrows furrowed into the shaded view of her sunglasses, and she stopped playing with the frills. I know that she's digesting my words and trying to get ready to spit back words of wisdom.

       Finally after a while of waiting she asks, "What if he hurts you?"

       I think about it, trying to sound more mature than a love struck teenager. I can't imagine Liam hurting me. All I can see is him smiling at me with a slight dust of blush on his cheeks. I've never seen Liam really angry either, except when he was talking with those lacrosse players.

       Now that I think about it, Liam is rumored to have anger issues. Mason hasn't warned me of anything and Liam doesn't bring it up, and the last thing I want to do is ruin what we have that's just beginning. What if he does have anger issues? Should I be worried? In the end, I shook my head, "Then I don't know what I'll do." I didn't know how else to respond.

       "Care-Bear, I only want what's best for you. If you feel like you're being suffocated by a relationship with Liam or unhappy, then just don't be with him. I want you to think about what will make you happy in the end." Nina smiled in my direction. Her smile is tight and almost forced, but looked genuine at the same time.

       I smiled at her softly and voiced my gratefulness, "Thank you, Nina. I don't know what I would do without you or Mason." It was true. They were my only real friends in Beacon Hills. My mother, my confidant, is gone, I can't confide with my awkward dad, and my brother pretends like I don't exist unless he sees me.

       "Anything else going on?" Nina perched up, almost eating up all my problems that I was feeding her. Even though Nina is a true friend, I also knew Nina loves gossip and drama. She loves sticking her nose in other people's businesses, and she told me it was because it gave her more sense for who they were since she couldn't see them. I just went along with her wicked ways sometimes.

       I shrugged, knowing she couldn't see it. "Nothing else, how about you?"

       Nina's demeanor changed as her posture straightened and her neck craned as if she was trying to appear stronger, more intimidating. It was her go-to method when she was dealing with a difficult situation. She did it last year when Marcus Asshole cheated on her and the next day sat down next to her like nothing happened.

       "My mother isn't doing so well anymore," Nina confessed, and I could feel her glare burning through the concealing shades. "I may take some time off to take care of her."

       "That's understandable," I said, "I would too if my mom was still around." Nina's mom was recently in a car crash, and Nina ran into my room that night a sobbing mess. She couldn't get a word out after she visited her mom and drove illegally to my house. Nina told me she was in a critical condition, and stopped me whenever I wanted to see her.

This is so bad I'm sorry. I wanted to introduce Nina in a way that you got to know her, but at the same time there's still a lot of mystery to her. She is a character you don't want to forget.

I hope you guys liked it because a lot of drama is about to happen, I've literally already wrote the script for the next six chapters I'msoexcited.